Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:44:04 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, craig <craiglei@pasia.com.cn>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108021043350.5582-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108020937090.20844-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu>
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On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > Also, the PIII CAN'T natively support more than 4GB of ram. If a > particular PIII motherboard supports this, then it's using some > kind of wierd chipset that allows this to happen. 4GB is the > limit with a 32 bit chip I believe; and the PIII is a 32-bit > chip. The Xeon series have 32 bits of virtual address space and 36 bits of physical address space. Rik -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)" http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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